Mental imagery, also called visualization and mental rehearsal, is defined as experience that resembles perceptual experience, but which occurs in the absence of the appropriate stimuli for the relevant perception

Stalking the Mental Image

Spatial/visual test More rotations took longer

Healing Visualization Tips from Dr. Patricia Norris Idiosyncratic is a structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group. Egosyntonic is a psychological term referring to behaviors, values, feelings that are in harmony with or acceptable to the needs and goals of the ego. Kinesthetic is the sense that detects bodily position, weight, or movement of the muscles, tendons, and joints.

Mental Imagery as a Relaxation Technique

Three Categories of Mental Imagery

Color and Light Therapy

Mind/Body Connection: The pendulum

Elephant vs. Rabbit

The mind body connection. Video. (If time permits)

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Advice on improving mental imagery skill can befound atwww.shpm.com/articles/sports/tennis.html.Mental imagery is intended to train our mindsand create the neural patterns in our brain toteach our muscles to do exactly what we wantthem to do (Porter, 17).

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An Historical Perspective ofMental Imageryand VisualizationOrigins date back to Freudand Jung in modernpsychologyMost likely used formillennia by people of allculturesShamans usedvisualization to heal tribemembers

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Mental imagery involvesunconscious thoughts thatbecome conscious in the effort toheal or make whole.Guided mental imagery is avariation wherein images aresuggested by another person.Visualization is a consciousthought process directed towardself-improvement.

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Image must beidiosyncraticImage must beegosyntonicImage must have apositive aspectImage must be kinestheticand somaticImage must beanatomically correctEmploy constancy anddialogueEmploy the healthyblueprint aspectEmploy the treatmentwith the image

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Just as real or imaginarythoughts can trigger thestress response, relaxingthoughts can promote therelaxation response.When imagination is usedto promote relaxation, thebody’s five senses are ineffect deactivated ordesensitized to stressfulstimuli.